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9 December 2016

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

8.0 |
Loud And Quiet

7.6 |
Pitchfork

It's audacious and ambitious, twisting lyrics about depravity and loneliness into shared anthems meant for overcoming both
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7.542416

7.5 |
All Music

An impressive debut, Passage has as many great moments as it does moments that suggest future greatness
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7.043543

7.0 |
Entertainment.ie

An impressively conceived and at times brutally brilliant collection of songs
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7.049210

7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)

Solid debut from a band which looks poised to make waves in the independent music scene for years to come
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7.041755

7.0 |
Drowned In Sound

Passage is endearing, with unforgettable peaks; it looks beautiful at first glance, and has no shortage of beautiful moments, but don’t delve too deeply lest the mirage of a grandiose masterpiece dissolve
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7.041757

7.0 |
NME

For all its bleak, dark fissures, bright and tender lights serenely burst out with hope
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5.542167

5.5 |
Prefix

Most of these songs would make for a devastating end to an emotionally charged, disturbed album. But ten songs like that in a row?
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5.042495

5.0 |
PopMatters

It’s a huge sound, but it doesn’t reach out to you so much as it wraps itself around the players, insulating them, keeping them at a distance from us and from where it is they’d like this music to go
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5.042001

5.0 |
Rave Magazine

While it’s easy to be impressed by the emotion carried in the vocals, Passage does tend to blur into a haze of too-similar, slow-moving tracks
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4.542226

4.5 |
Tone Deaf

Strip away the fug of atmospherics and there’s little to dress up the weak songwriting at the heart of their brooding compositions, leaving merely the picked-at skeleton of greater bands
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